Major league mother trucker 01 by Lee Ellis
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Medium: spray paint & oil pastel on paper
Dimensions: 59.5 x 84 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $1700.00 USD
Status: available
In creating "Major League Mother Trucker," I poured my emotions directly onto the paper, capturing a raw, unfiltered moment of chaos and energy. This piece was born in a single sitting, a testament to the immediacy and intensity I felt at that time. The vibrant spray paint and expressive oil pastel strokes reflect a whirlwind of feelings, a cathartic release that I often seek in my work. The bold, contrasting colors and dynamic textures mirror the tumultuous inner landscape I navigated during its creation. The orange backdrop serves as a fiery canvas for the layered blues and yellows, each stroke a visceral expression of my state of mind. This portrait is not just an image but a snapshot of a fleeting emotional experience, preserved on paper. I hope viewers feel the immediacy and authenticity of this piece. It’s a glimpse into the spontaneous and unrestrained side of my artistic journey. I invite you to connect with the emotion and energy, finding your own reflection in its vibrant chaos.
Why collect this work?
A recognisable head is built and partly cancelled by broad blue marks, while an orange field and looping yellow strokes keep the portrait suspended between depiction and disruption.
- Ellis states that his practice addresses depression and addiction through bright colour and treats making as catharsis. Here, that intention helps explain the collision of vivid colour and obscured identity, but the image remains open to other readings.
- In the photograph, dark horizontal strokes interrupt the eyes and mouth, while pale angular facets briefly recover the forehead, cheek and neck. The face emerges through accumulation rather than clear contour.
- Catalogue metadata identifies spray paint and oil pastel on paper. Spray paint permits broad fields and diffused passages; oil pastel can supply the dense, directional marks that cut across them. The artist reports completing the work in one sitting.
- As a 2025 work on paper measuring 59.5 by 84 cm, it provides a focused encounter with portraiture treated as an unstable act of recognition, where concealment and description occur at once.
About the Artist
Lee Ellis
Lee Ellis is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Nationality: British
Themes I explore within my work are depression and addiction, how they affect people and the ways in which they are masked through 'bright' colours...
